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: a game in which all players but one occupy goals (as the corners of a room) and at a signal try to exchange places before the one having no place of his own can reach one of the vacant goals

— called also pussy wants a corner

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“Puss in the corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puss%20in%20the%20corner. Accessed 5 Aug. 2021.

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